Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Portugal

The Democratic Movement for the Liberation of Portugal (MDLP) was a conservative political party in Portugal that was active from 5 May 1975 to 29 April 1976. The party was founded by Antonio de Spinola, who led the MDLP from Brazil, and it operated as an underground resistance movement against the growing influence of the Portuguese Communist Party and various groups of the extreme left. In 1975, Spinola led an abortive coup to prevent the Communists from taking power, and the party dissolved on 29 April 1976.